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Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Department of Library Special Collections Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, KY 42101-1092
Descriptive Inventory
MSS 605 RICE, Laban Lacy, 1870-1973
8 boxes. 111 folders. 2,160 items. 1887-1988. Originals, photocopies, photographs.
SC2017.28.1; 1982.118.1
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Laban Lacy Rice, son of Laban Marchbanks Rice and Martha Lacy and brother of the poet Cale Young Rice, was born in Dixon, Kentucky, on 14 October 1870. In 1879, his family moved to Evansville, Indiana, where his father dealt in tobacco. Rice received his A.B. in 1891, his M.A. in 1892, and his Ph.D. in Latin, Greek and Sanskrit in 1894, all from Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. At Cumberland, he and brother Cale were star baseball players (pitcher and catcher, respectively) and Rice co-founded the Theta chapter of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. Rice taught at Auburn Seminary in Auburn, Kentucky, then served as professor of English Language and Literature at Cumberland from 1894-1904 (with the exception of 1897-1899, when he was associate editor of The Cumberland Presbyterian in Nashville, Tennessee). In 1902, he founded The Cumberland Presbyterian Quarterly, a review of theology, philosophy and literature, and served as its editor until 1904. In 1902, Rice helped to establish Castle Heights School in Lebanon, Tennessee. He served as its headmaster from 1904 until 1913, when he became sole owner and president of the school. In 1916, a plan to affiliate Castle Heights with Cumberland University and to combine the schools under a single management, with Rice as president, was abandoned. Rice converted Castle Heights into a military academy in 1917, earning for himself the honorific “Colonel,” then sold the school in 1921. From 1920-1929 he was president of the Junior Military Academy at Bloomington Springs, Tennessee. From 1919-1922, he was owner and director of Camp Kawasawa for Boys on the Cumberland River near Lebanon, and from 1920-1947 he owned and operated Nakánawa Junior and Senior Camps for Girls on the eastern and western shores of Mayland Lake near Crossville, Tennessee. He was also part owner and associate director of Camp Sequoyah for Boys at Asheville, North Carolina from 1929-1936. In May 1939, Rice was named associate president and chancellor of Cumberland University, where he directed an endowment drive for its law school. He resigned his office in June 1940, apparently due to conflicts over authority with President Ernest L. Stockton. In November 1941, however, Stockton resigned and Rice was appointed president. Upon retiring from the presidency in June 1946, Rice, an accomplished amateur astronomer, donated a building and equipment to establish the Rice Observatory at Cumberland. Over the years, he also donated artwork to various institutions and gave items from his extensive collection of
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2 books and manuscripts to several libraries, including Cumberland and Western Kentucky University. After his retirement, Rice vigorously pursued his interests in travel, writing and study. He lectured extensively and wrote books and articles on relativity, astronomy, cosmology, and the possibility of life on other planets. He made homes in Ware Neck, Virginia, where he constructed his own observatory, and in St. Petersburg and Orlando, Florida. He established the Rice Planetarium in St. Petersburg in October 1953 and operated it until June 1954; after an abortive attempt to reestablish it at Rollins College in Winter Park, he relocated it to Stetson University in Deland, Florida in 1956. He also presented a telescope to Orlando’s Central Florida Museum in 1957. Rice read widely, wrote poetry, fiction and memoirs, and was an energetic letter-writer to the editors of newspapers, popular magazines and scholarly journals. Politically, he was a staunch supporter of the Vietnam War (although he sympathized with Representative Eugene McCarthy’s anti-war views in a 1968 letter to him), a foe of Communism and campus radicalism, and a critic of judicial decisions on school desegregation in the 1950s. Two of the more sensational incidents of his life occurred in 1953, when he shot a would-be suitor attempting to abduct his daughter Katherine from her home, accidentally wounding her in the process; and in 1961, when he used his expertise in classical literature and history to perpetrate a widely reported hoax in which a fictional archaeologist claimed to have discovered the tomb of King Orestes at Mycenae in Greece. As he grew older, Rice received regular invitations and recognition from Castle Heights and from Cumberland University as a popular speaker, benefactor, former president and its oldest living graduate. Cumberland created the Rice Medal in Astronomy in 1957, and its law school awarded Rice a Doctor of Letters degree in 1959. On his 98th birthday in 1968, he spoke to students for more than an hour, and spoke for 90 minutes on his one-hundredth birthday in 1970, when he was fêted at Cumberland with celebrations that included “Laban Lacy Rice Day” in Lebanon. In 1971, Castle Heights honored him with one of its inaugural “Lux et Veritas” Awards for outstanding contributions to education. Rice died on 14 February 1973 in St. Petersburg, Florida, and was buried there at Cedar Grove Cemetery. He was predeceased by his wife Blanche Alexander Buchanan (1871-1937), who he married on 23 November 1892. They were the parents of two daughters, Katherine (Rice) Shaw and Anne Hays (Rice) O’Neil.
COLLECTION NOTE
This collection consists of correspondence, writings (fiction, non-fiction, autobiographical, scientific), poems, clippings, genealogy, and miscellaneous papers of Laban Lacy Rice. His scientific writing is principally on astronomy, cosmology and relativity. Also included are correspondence and papers relating to Rice’s brother, poet and dramatist Cale Young Rice, and his sister-in-law, author Alice Hegan Rice. Box 1 contains clippings (Folders 2-6), chiefly from local newspapers, chronicling Rice’s life and career. Included are lecture announcements, reviews of his books, news of his gifts of books and astronomical equipment, and retrospectives published when he reached his 100th year and beyond. Materials relating to the 1974 dedication of a historical marker at the Dixon,
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Kentucky home of Rice and his brother Cale (Folder 7) include clippings and the ceremony program. The remainder of Box 1 (Folders 8-15) and Boxes 2 and 3 contain Rice’s general correspondence. Much of the correspondence relates to his literary and scientific pursuits and is frequently with persons distinguished in their fields. Included are authors’ acknowledgements of notices in the Cumberland Presbyterian; letters of thanks from recipients of Rice’s books; exchanges with scientists and other scholars about their work and ideas; responses to Rice’s submission of manuscripts for publication and to his solicitation of endowments for Cumberland University; greetings, invitations and reminiscences from alumni and administrators of Cumberland and Castle Heights; letters of appreciation from patrons of Nakánawa Camps for Girls, especially after Rice’s 1947 announcement that he would sell the camp, and in observance of his 102nd birthday in 1972; correspondence regarding lecture arrangements, the relocation of his Florida planetarium, his telescope gift to the Central Florida Museum, and other gifts; his letters to politicians commenting on national issues; letters (genuine and fabricated) relating to his “Mycenae hoax”; and cards and letters of tribute on his 100th and subsequent birthdays. Of interest is a copy (the original is at Cumberland University) of a letter from Dwight D. Eisenhower (Box 2, Folder 10) responding to Rice’s request for comment on Confederate tactics at the Battle of Gettysburg. Also included throughout the correspondence are letters to newspapers and journals such as Time, Life, Harper’s, The American Scholar, the New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic and the Saturday Review in which Rice responds to articles on literary, religious, historical, scientific and political subjects or points out errors in English usage. A separate folder (Box 6, Folder 4) contains Rice’s editorializing on race. In letters to the editor and opinion pieces, he reacts to articles on civil rights activism and race relations and criticizes 1950s U.S. Supreme Court decisions on school desegregation. Box 3 also includes separate folders of Rice’s correspondence with Albert Einstein (Folder 9) about his theory of relativity and other ideas, as well as correspondence detailing Rice’s gifts of books, manuscripts and artifacts made over a period of years to Western Kentucky University (Folders 10, 11). The correspondence with WKU relates to Rice’s gifts of his own papers and to those of his brother and sister-in-law, Cale Young Rice and Alice Hegan Rice (see MSS 47 RICE Collection). Box 4 contains correspondence, photographs and other papers relating to Rice’s brother and sister-in-law, Cale Young Rice and Alice Hegan Rice. Cale’s letters to Rice (Folder 1) concern family matters, his and Alice’s literary work and health, and their travel to New York, London, Paris and Maine. He also writes of his despondency following Alice’s death in 1942. Condolences to Rice following Cale’s suicide in January 1943 (Folder 2) include reminiscences and a Louisville Times obituary and editorial. Letters from Alice Hegan Rice (Folder 5) concern her and Cale’s literary work, travel and family matters, Nakánawa Camp, her reading, and her praise for Rice’s books, Sonnets to B.B.R. and A Mountain Idyll (the latter dedicated to Alice). Other materials include Alice’s social calendar for 1941-1942 (Folder 7), her journal of quotes and epigrams (Folder 9) and remarks on short story writing (Folder 10). Rice’s essay, “Alice Hegan Rice–Home Maker” and short anecdotes (Folder 8) demonstrate his personal regard for her. Rice’s correspondence relating to Alice and Cale after their deaths (Folder 11) concern recordings of Cale’s poems made for the blind, acknowledgements from recipients of Cale’s books, acknowledgements of Rice’s solicitations to publish his writing about Cale and Alice, copyright permissions, a proposal from a Louisville friend to write a novel about Cale and Alice,
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4 and Rice’s proposals to establish a writing award at Cumberland University in memory of Alice and Cale. Box 5 contains miscellaneous personal papers of Rice and his autobiographical writing and reminiscences. Materials relating to Castle Heights Military Academy and Cumberland University include certificates and citations (Folder 1), his grade records from Cumberland (Folder 4) and addresses, reminiscences, and programs in connection with recognitions of Rice by both schools (Folder 5). Papers relating to his membership in the Kappa Sigma fraternity (Folder 6) include correspondence, reviews of his books and articles written for the fraternity magazine, the Caduceus, Rice’s “ode” read at the 1957 Grand Conclave, greetings and reminiscences sent to other conclaves, and a profile of Rice published in the August 1971 Caduceus. Personal and autobiographical writing of Rice’s (Folder 9) includes memories of Lebanon, Tennessee and Evansville, Indiana as well as recollections of his childhood, school days and family, and a lengthier reflection, “A Backward Look at Eighty” (Folder 10). Although they contain some autobiographical content, the book-length Reflections and Recollections, published in 1961 (Folder 11), and Obiter Dicta of a Post-Centenarian (Folders 12 and 13) are more notable as chronicles of Rice’s philosophical and intellectual development. Shorter writings (Folder 14) reflect on old age and death. Box 6 contains mostly Rice genealogy material and Rice’s miscellaneous notes, lectures and writing, much of it on scientific subjects. Genealogical data (Folder 1) includes letters with information from other Rice family members, many in response to a 1969 article by Rice in the Providence, Kentucky Journal-Enterprise, as well as a copy of Charles Elmer Rice’s By the Name of Rice (Folder 2). A journal kept over a few months in 1967 (Folder 3) contains Rice’s reflections on various topics. Box 7 contains Rice’s writing, mostly fiction—stories, a novel, a script for television, and humorous pieces. Also included (Folder 1) is a series he wrote on American poets for the Cumberland Presbyterian. Box 8 contains Rice’s poems, collected epigrams, photographs, and miscellaneous items. Poems (Folders 1 and 2) are arranged alphabetically by title, with a few published versions included. Oversized items (Folder 10) consist of Rice’s 1959 Doctor of Letters diploma and his Kentucky Colonel and Tennessee Colonel certificates. Also included are photographs of Rice (Folders 11 and 12), his parents (Folder 18), Rice’s homes and observatories (Folders 13-16), and his Doctor of Laws degree ceremony (Folder 17).
SHELF LIST
BOX 1 Laban Lacy Rice – Biographical & 1890-1973 507 items Correspondence
Folder 1 Inventory and separation records 6 items
Folder 2 Clippings on life and career 1890-1949 48 items
Folder 3 Clippings on life and career 1950-1960 54 items
Folder 4 Clippings on life and career 1961-1969 53 items
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Folder 5 Clippings on life and career 1971-1973 29 items
Folder 6 Clippings on life and career n.d. 11 items
Folder 7 Rice brothers historical marker – Dixon, Kentucky 1974 5 items
Folder 8 Correspondence 1897-1939 50 items
Folder 9 Correspondence 1940-1945 26 items
Folder 10 Correspondence 1946-1947 50 items
Folder 11 Correspondence 1948-1949 35 items
Folder 12 Correspondence 1950 52 items
Folder 13 Correspondence 1951 30 items
Folder 14 Correspondence 1952-1953 23 items
Folder 15 Correspondence 1954 35 items
BOX 2 Laban Lacy Rice – Correspondence 1955-1968 481 items
Folder 1 Correspondence 1955 32 items
Folder 2 Correspondence 1956 44 items
Folder 3 Correspondence 1957 64 items
Folder 4 Correspondence 1958-1959 62 items
Folder 5 Correspondence 1960 24 items
Folder 6 Correspondence 1961 63 items
Folder 7 Correspondence 1962 29 items
Folder 8 Correspondence 1963-1964 49 items
Folder 9 Correspondence 1965-1966 31 items
Folder 10 Correspondence 1967 36 items
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Folder 11 Correspondence 1968 47 items
BOX 3 Laban Lacy Rice – Correspondence 1969-1988 494 items
Folder 1 Correspondence 1969 81 items
Folder 2 Correspondence Jan.-Sept. 44 items 1970
Folder 3 Correspondence Oct.-Dec. 57 items 1970
Folder 4 Correspondence Jan.-Sept. 22 items 1971
Folder 5 Correspondence Oct.-Dec. 44 items 1971
Folder 6 Correspondence Jan.-Sept. 30 items 1972
Folder 7 Correspondence Oct.-Dec. 30 items 1972
Folder 8 Correspondence n.d. 24 items
Folder 9 Correspondence with Albert Einstein; 1942-1952, 8 items associated article 1988
Folder 10 Correspondence with WKU and Special 1943-1956 52 items Collections Library regarding Rice collections
Folder 11 Correspondence with WKU and Special 1956-1971 92 items Collections Library regarding Rice collections
Folder 12 Letters to editors and publications n.d. 10 items
BOX 4 Laban Lacy Rice – Cale Young Rice & 1896-1979 135 items Alice Hegan Rice
Folder 1 Letters from Cale Young Rice to Laban Lacy Rice 1901-1943 37 items
Folder 2 Letters to Laban Lacy Rice regarding death of Cale 1943 33 items Young Rice
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Folder 3 Cale Young Rice – Photograph n.d. 1 item
Folder 4 Cumberland Sports Hall of Fame citation for 1979 1 item Cale Young Rice
Folder 5 Letters from Alice Hegan Rice to Laban Lacy Rice 1906-1941 25 items and Blanche Rice
Folder 6 Alice Hegan Rice – Photograph n.d. 1 item
Folder 7 List of Alice Hegan Rice social engagements 1941-1942 1 item
Folder 8 “Alice Hegan Rice – Home Maker”; anecdotes n.d. 4 items about Alice Hegan Rice
Folder 9 Alice Hegan Rice journal of quotes and epigrams n.d. 1 item
Folder 10 Alice Hegan Rice remarks on short story writing n.d. 1 item
Folder 11 Letters, etc. regarding Cale Young Rice and 1896-1970 28 items Alice Hegan Rice
Folder 12 “The Poetry and Prose of Cale Young Rice” and n.d. 2 items “Cale Young Rice and Alice Hegan Rice: The Story of Their Books,” published by Century Co.
BOX 5 Laban Lacy Rice – Miscellaneous; Castle 1887-1979 141 items Heights Military Academy and Cumberland University; Autobiographical and personal writing
Folder 1 Certificates, citations 1950-1979 20 items
Folder 2 Passports, vaccination certificate 1927-1961 7 items
Folder 3 Nakánawa Camps for Girls 1945 2 items
Folder 4 Grade records from Cumberland University 1887-1891 13 items
Folder 5 Castle Heights Military Academy and Cumberland 1946-1972, 28 items University – Reminiscences, addresses, programs n.d.
Folder 6 Kappa Sigma – Correspondence, publications, etc. 1949-1972 45 items
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Folder 7 Cumberland College Math Club – Guest book 1967 1 item
Folder 8 Rice Observatory, Cumberland University n.d. 1 item
Folder 9 Miscellaneous writing – Personal and 1961-1970, 14 items autobiographical n.d.
Folder 10 “A Backward Look at Eighty” [1950] 1 item
Folder 11 Reflections and Recollections manuscript 1961 1 item
Folder 12 Obiter Dicta of a Post-Centenarian typescript [1971] 1 item
Folder 13 Obiter Dicta of a Post-Centenarian manuscript [1971] 2 items and partial printed copy
Folder 14 Writings on old age 1967-1970 5 items
Box 6 Laban Lacy Rice – Genealogy; Writing 1897-1969 128 items
Folder 1 Rice genealogy – Correspondence, etc. 1915-1972 33 items
Folder 2 By the Name of Rice – Historical sketch of 1911 1 item Deacon Edmund Rice and his descendants, by Charles Elmer Rice
Folder 3 Journal of Laban Lacy Rice 1967 1 item
Folder 4 Writing on race relations 1951-1970 23 items
Folder 5 Writing and data on ancient Greece n.d. 8 items
Folder 6 Writing and notes on Mars, planets, stars 1957-1958 20 items
Folder 7 Writing and notes on extraterrestrial life 1962, n.d. 9 items
Folder 8 “What to Know About Relativity” and notes n.d. 5 items
Folder 9 Writing on cosmogony n.d. 5 items
Folder 10 The Universe: Its Origin, Nature and Destiny 1951 1 item
Folder 11 Notes and drafts for lectures “Our Puzzling n.d. 13 items Universe” and “Origin and Destiny of the Universe”
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Folder 12 Scrapbook on Rice Planetarium 1953-1954 1 item
Folder 13 L. L. Rice Planetarium, Stetson University – Report 1962 1 item
Folder 14 Miscellaneous writing – Scientific 1897-1950 6 items
Folder 15 “Behind the Veil,” by Frank Logan Goodwin 1957 1 item
Box 7 Laban Lacy Rice – Writing 1895-1970 54 items
Folder 1 “America’s Poetic Pleiad” articles for 1896 1 item Cumberland Presbyterian
Folder 2 “The Man From Tellereve” and other stories n.d. 1 item
Folder 3 “Dead Hands” n.d. 1 item
Folder 4 Gunsmoke scripts n.d. 3 items
Folder 5 “Our Town U.S.A.” 1965 3 items
Folder 6 Film treatment for “I Wonder What Next?” or n.d. 3 items “Our Town U.S.A.”
Folder 7 “The Wheel Quiz” n.d. 1 item
Folder 8 Notes and drafts for “The Wheel Quiz” n.d. 6 items
Folder 9 “The Bell Witch” n.d. 1 item
Folder 10 Song lyrics n.d. 6 items
Folder 11 Miscellaneous writing – Fiction, humor n.d. 10 items
Folder 12 Miscellaneous writing 1895-1965 15 items
Folder 13 Book jackets [1946-1956] 3 items
Box 8 Laban Lacy Rice – Poems; Epigrams; 1890-1971 220 items Photographs
Folder 1 Poems (A-M) n.d. 70 items
Folder 2 Poems (N-W) n.d. 57 items
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Folder 3 Poems and short essays n.d. 1 item
Folder 4 A Sheaf of Epigrams – manuscript drafts 1963 2 items
Folder 5 Notebook of collected quotations n.d. 1 item
Folder 6 Collected quotations n.d. 1 item
Folder 7 Printed items (poems, prayers, programs) 1913-1961 16 items
Folder 8 Discussion questions regarding women n.d. 1 item
Folder 9 Miscellaneous clippings of interest to Rice n.d. 1 item
Folder 10 Oversized items list 1959, 1970 3 items
Folder 11 Laban Lacy Rice – Photographs 1890-1971 9 items
Folder 12 Laban Lacy Rice – Photographs 1935-1971 10 items
Folder 13 Laban Lacy Rice homes – Photographs n.d. 20 items
Folder 14 Rice Planetarium, St. Petersburg, Florida; 1957, n.d. 2 items Telescope, Central Florida Museum – Photographs n.d.
Folder 15 Observatory, Ware Neck, Virginia – Photographs 1947-1953 3 items
Folder 16 Rice Observatory, Cumberland University – 1946-1957, 11 items Photographs n.d.
Folder 17 Doctor of Letters, Cumberland Law School – 1959 5 items Photographs
Folder 18 Laban Marchbanks Rice & Martha Lacy Rice – 1891, n.d. 4 items Photographs
Folder 19 Miscellaneous photographs 1946, n.d. 3 items
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
MSS RICE, Laban Lacy, 1887-1988 605 1870-1973
Correspondence, writings, photographs, clippings, and papers of Laban Lacy Rice, a Webster, County, Kentucky native, educator, author, lecturer, poet, and president of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee. Includes his scientific writing, principally on astronomy, relativity and cosmology, as well as fiction, poetry, and autobiographical writing. Also includes some correspondence and papers relating to his brother, poet and dramatist Cale Young Rice, and sister-in-law, author Alice Hegan Rice. 8 boxes. 111 folders. 2,160 items. Originals, photocopies, photographs. SC2017.28.1; 1982.118.1
SUBJECT ANALYTICS
Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922 B1,F8 African Americans – Lebanon, Tennessee, 1926 – Relating to B1,F8 Agnew, Spiro Theodore, 1918-1996 – Letter to B3,F2 Allen, Alexander Viets Griswold, 1841-1908 B1,F8 Allen, George Edward, 1896-1973 B1,F10 Allen, Jane Potter (Mengel), 1888-1952 B4,F2 Allott, Gordon Llewellyn, 1907-1989 – Correspondence B3,F2 Alter, Dinsmore, 1888-1968 B2,F1 Armstrong, Harry L., 1888-1972 B2,F5 Armstrong, Harry L., 1888-1972 – Photograph B8,F17 Arnold, William Howard, 1901-1976 – Correspondence B2,F11 Astrology – Comments about, 1969 B3,F1 Astronomers Astronomical observatories – Florida – Photographs B8,F14 Astronomical observatories – Florida – Relating to B1,F3,4,14; B2,F3,4,6-8; B5,F1; B6,F12,13 Astronomical observatories – Tennessee – Photographs B8,F16 Astronomical observatories – Tennessee – Relating to B1,F2-4,15; B2,F11; B5,F8 Astronomical observatories – Virginia – Photographs B8,F15 Astronomical observatories – Virginia – Relating to B1,F3 Astronomy Auburn Seminary – Auburn, Kentucky – Relating to B2,F7 Authors Baker, Ruth (Smith), 1893-1940 B1,F8
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Baker, Ruth (Smith), 1893-1940 – Relating to B3,F7 Barnard, Edward Emerson, 1857-1923 – Comments about, 1968 B2,F11 Barzun, Jacques Martin, 1907-2012 B2,F4 Baseball – Cumberland University – Lebanon, Tennessee – Relating to B1,F2,3,9; B4,F4; B5,F1,5 Bell Witch B7,F9 Benét, William Rose, 1886-1950 B1,F10 Bergquist, C. Hilding, 1915-1989 – Correspondence B1,F12 Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 – Letter to B3,F2 Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 – Relating to B2,F6,7; B3,F2 Birthday cards B1,F12; B2,F4,10; B3,F1,2,5,7,8 Bolander, Karl S., 1893-1976 B2,F1 Bond, Durbin, 1892-1976 B2,F5,6,11; B3,F4 Bondi, Hermann, 1919-2005 – Letter to B2,F3 Bradford, Amory Howe, 1846-1911 B1,F8 Braymer, Lawrence E., 1901-1965 B2,F5 Brewer, Ernest Mood, 1885-1974 B2,F2,4 Brewer, Wheaton Hale, 1897-1959 – Correspondence B1,F14; B2,F1; B5,F6 Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 B1,F11 Brown, Francis, 1903-1995 B1,F12 Brown, Hubert Gerold “H. Rap,” b. 1943 – Relating to B2,F11 Brown, Lucie Scott, 1916-1992 – Correspondence B3,F5-7 Browne, Borden Parker, 1847-1910 B1,F8 Burke, Charles Bell, b. 1867 B1,F8 Burke, John L., 1900-1973 B2,F2-4,6; B3,F5,6,8 Burt, Maxwell Struthers, 1882-1954 B1,F13 Byrd, Harry Flood, Jr., 1914-2013 B2,F10,11; B3,F1,3 Byrd, Harry Flood, Sr., 1887-1966 B1,F11,14; B2,F5,6 Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958 B1,F8 Camps – North Carolina – Camp Sequoyah – Relating to B1,F9; B3,F7 Camps – Tennessee – Nakánawa Camps – Relating to B1,F9,10; B2,F2,8,10,11; B3,F1,3,5,7,8; B4,F2,5; B5,F3 Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998 – Relating to B2,F11 Castle Heights Military Academy – Lebanon, Tennessee – Relating to B1,F2-5,9,10,13,14; B2,F3,5,6,8,10,11; B3,F1-3,5,6; B5,F1,5 Cerf, Bennett Alfred, 1898-1971 B4,F11 Certificates – Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels, 1970 B8,F10 Certificates – Tennessee Colonel, Aide de camp, 1970 B8,F10 Certificates – Vaccination, 1961 B5,F2 Childress, Nellie J. “Nell,” 1883-1987 B2,F6,7; B3,F7 Christmas cards B3,F5,8 Ciardi, John, 1916-1986 B2,F4,8 Civil War, 1861-1865 – Campaigns, battles, military actions – Gettysburg, 1863 – Relating to B2,F4,10 Civil War, 1861-1865 – Lebanon, Tennessee – Relating to B5,F9 Civil rights movement – Comments about, 1951-1970 B6,F4
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Clarke, James E., b. 1868? B1,F8 Clason, Clyde B., 1903-1987 B2,F4 Clayton, William Lockhart, 1880-1966 B1,F9 Coblentz, Stanton Arthur, 1896-1982 B1,F9,12 Coombs, Elizabeth Robertson, 1893-1988 – Correspondence B3,F11 Cosmology Coulter, Ellis Merton, 1890-1981 B1,F12 Courthouses – Webster County – Photograph B8,F19 Cousins, Norman, 1915-1990 B2,F2-4,6 Cowles, John H., d. 1954 – Relating to B1,F15 Craig, Donaldson, 1883-1966 B2,F3 Crenshaw, Goldie N. (Rice), 1876-1968 B1,F14 Crenshaw, Goldie N. (Rice), 1876-1968 – Relating to B4,F1 Cross, Wilbur Lucius, 1862-1948 B1,F8 Crossett, Jesse H., 1893-1974 B1,F10; B2,F6,8 Crossett, Jesse H., 1893-1974 – Photograph B8,F19 Crothers, Samuel McChord, 1857-1927 B1,F8 Cumberland University – Lebanon, Tennessee – Relating to B1,F2-5,9,11; B2,F3-5,7,10,11; B3,F1-3,6; B4,F11; B5,F1,4,5,7,9 Cuyler, Theodore Ledyard, 1822-1909 B1,F8 Dabney, Virginius, 1901-1995 B1,F12; B2,F8 Davidson, Donald Grady, 1893-1968 B1,F10; B4,F11 Deans, C. W. B1,F14 Death – Comments about B5,F14 Dewey, John, 1859-1952 B4,F11 DeWitt family – Relating to B2,F11 Diplomas – Cumberland University, 1959 B8,F10 Dirksen, Everett McKinley, 1896-1969 B2,F9 Donnell, Lindsey, 1915-1993 B2,F2 Dowden, Edward, 1843-1913 B1,F8 Dowdey, Clifford, 1904-1979 B1,F11 Downing, Dero Goodman, 1921-2011 B3,F11 DuBridge, Lee Alvin, 1901-1994 B2,F4 Du Pont, Pierre Samuel, 1870-1954 B1,F9,14 Edmunds, J. Ollie, 1903-1984 B2,F2-4 Edwards, John Bowen, 1883-1971 B1,F14 Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 – Correspondence B3,F9 Eisenhower, Dwight David, 1890-1969 – Correspondence B2,F6,10,11 Epigrams B4,F9; B8,F4 Evans, Bergen Baldwin, 1904-1978 B2,F3 Evansville, Indiana – History B5,F9 Extraterrestrial beings – Relating to B1,F3,4; B6,F6,7 Federer, Charles Anthony, Jr., 1909-1999 B1,F11; B2,F5 Fly, Rosalynd (Karrh), d. 1971 B2,F8-11 Fly, Rosalynd (Karrh), d. 1971 – Photograph B8,F11 Fly, Rosalynd (Karrh), d. 1971 – Relating to B3,F4
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Folk songs B7,F10 Fraternities and sororities – Kappa Sigma B5,F6 Freeman, Douglas Southall, 1886-1953 B1,F12 French, Frank A. B2,F3 Frost, Wesley, 1884-1968 B2,F3 Fulbright, James William, 1905-1995 – Letters to B2,F9 Furman, Lucy, 1869-1958 B1,F8 Garner, T. F. B1,F9 Garrett, Paul Loos, 1893-1955 – Correspondence B1,F13; B3,F10 Gladden, Washington, 1836-1918 B1,F8 Glendinning, Richard E., 1917-1988 B2,F6 Golladay, George S. – Relating to B3,F8 Goodwin, Frank Logan, b. 1887 – Correspondence B2,F3,4; B6,F15 Green, Grafton, 1872-1947 B1,F8 Hall, Donald S. B2,F7,8 Harlan, Paul M., 1897-1984 B5,F6 Harris, Samuel, 1814-1899 B1,F8 Hartnett, Thomas Raymond, 1900-1951 B1,F11 Havens, Charles B. B2,F2,3 Haydn, Hiram Collins, 1907-1973 – Correspondence B1,F11-13,15; B2,F1,3,11; B3,F2,3 Helm, Harold Holmes, 1900-1985 B2,F4 Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 B3,F10,11; B4,F2 Herring, Woodrow B1,F10 Historic houses – Webster County B1,F7,8 Historic houses – Webster County – Photographs B8,F13 Hoaxes B1,F4; B2,F6,11; B5,F1 Hocking, William Ernest, 1873-1966 B4,F11 Holman, Ross L., 1884-1982 B1,F12 Holt, Hamilton, 1872-1951 B4,F2 Hoover, John Edgar, 1895-1972 B2,F8 Howison, George Holmes, 1834-1916 B1,F8 Hughes, Charles Evans, Sr., 1862-1948 B1,F9,10 Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 B1,F9 Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 – Relating to B1,F9 Humphreys, Allison B., 1906-1993 B2,F10,11; B3,F3 Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-1977 B1,F9 Integration and segregation, Racial – Comments about, 1951-1970 B2,F3-6; B6,F4 Jae-seon, John A. Choi, 1912-2008 B2,F8 Jae-seon, John A. Choi, 1912-2008 – Relating to B5,F1 James, Alice Howe (Gibbens), 1849-1922 B1,F8 James, William, 1842-1910 B1,F8 Jamison, John A., 1916-1999 B1,F11,14; B2,F4-6; B3,F1,3 Johnson, C. Walton, 1886-1967 B1,F9,11 Johnson, C. Walton, 1886-1967 – Relating to B2,F10 Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 1908-1973 – Letters to B2,F9,11 Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 1908-1973 – Relating to B2,F9
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Jones, Jesse Holman, 1874-1956 B1,F9 Justice, Joseph, 1916-2005 B2,F2 Kallen, Horace Meyer, 1882-1974 B1,F13 Karrh, Lona Olive, 1894-1996 B3,F4,5 Kelly, Eleanor Mercein, 1880-1968 B1,F10 Kelton, Leslie E., Jr., 1897-1981 B1,F9,10 Kemp, Eva Deane, 1910-1981 B1,F7; B3,F5,6 Kennedy, Edward Moore “Ted,” 1932-2009 B3,F1 Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963 B2,F5 Kennedy, Robert Francis, 1925-1968 B2,F4 Kimbrough, Charles Hulin, b. 1880 B1,F8 Knecht, Karl Kae, 1883-1972 B2,F6; B5,F1 Knopf, Alfred Abraham, Sr., 1892-1984 B2,F8 Lebanon, Tennessee – History B5,F9 Lebanon, Tennessee – Social life and customs, 1880s B5,F9 Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 – Comments about, 1950 B1,F12 Lewis, Fulton, Jr., 1903-1966 B1,F12 Lisman, Thomas Perry, b. 1856 B1,F8 Livingstone, Richard Winn, 1880-1960 B2,F3 Loomis, Clarence, 1889-1965 B1,F9; B4,F2,11 Lowes, John Livingston, 1867-1945 B1,F8 Lucas, Ralph A., 1911-1990 – Correspondence B2,F9; B3,F1,5 Lynes, Russell, 1910-1991 B1,F11,12,14 MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964 B2,F6 MacDougall, Curtis Daniel, 1903-1985 B2,F6,7 Marshall, Harley C. B1,F10,11,13 Mason, Richard K. “Dick,” 1883-1973 B2,F3,4,6-11; B3,F1,3-6 Mathews, Shailer, 1863-1941 B1,F8 McCarthy, Eugene Joseph “Gene,” 1916-2005 – Correspondence B2,F11 McDarment, Corley P., 1891-1987 B2,F2 McKean, Hugh F., 1908-1995 – Correspondence B1,F15; B2,F1,2 McVey, Frank LeRond, 1869-1953 B4,F2 Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 – Letter to B3,F1 Mencken, Henry Louis, 1880-1956 – Comments about, 1924 B4,F1 Mencken, Henry Louis, 1880-1956 – Relating to B1,F12 Merritt, Dixon Lanier, 1879-1972 B2,F8 Mims, Edwin, 1872-1959 B1,F8 Mitchell, Elisabeth “Mitch,” 1912-2000 – Comments about, 1947 B1,F10 Mitchell, John Ridley, 1877-1962 B1,F11 Moore, John Trotwood, 1858-1929 B1,F8 Moore, Mary Elizabeth (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 – Correspondence B1,F14; B3,F10,11; B4,F1 Morgan, Christopher – Correspondence B3,F5,6 Morris, Charles E. K., Jr. B2,F10 Morrow, James Vernon B2,F4 Moses, Herbert H. B2,F4,6; B3,F3
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, 1901 – Relating to B4,F5 Munitz, Milton Karl, 1913-1995 – Letter to B2,F4 Münsterberg, Hugo, 1863-1916 B1,F8 Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 – Correspondence B3,F11; B6,F1 Nelson, Donald Marr, 1888-1959 B1,F9 Nelson, Frederic C., d. 1982 B1,F12 A Night in Avignon, 1907 – Relating to B4,F1 Nixon, Richard Milhous, 1913-1994 – Correspondence B1,F15; B2,F8; B3,F1,2-4,8 Noyes, Alfred, 1880-1958 B1,F8 Noyes, Alfred, 1880-1958 – Comments about, 1913 B4,F1 Ocean travel, 1961 – Relating to B8,F7 Ochs, Adolph Shelby, 1895-1974 B1,F14; B2,F2,6 Ogram, Alfred, 1898-1995 B3,F5 O’Neil, Anne Hays (Rice) “Annie” – Letter to B2,F3 Orrell, May B2,F3 Paley, Irving H., 1915-1993 B1,F12 Parker, Fess Elisha, Jr., 1924-2010 – Letter to B3,F3 Passports, 1927-1961 B5,F2 Phelps, William Lyon, 1865-1943 B1,F8 Poetry B1,F2; B2,F3,4,6-10; B3,F2,3,6,7; B3,F12; B4,F1; B5,F5; B8,F1-3,9 Poets Posey, J. Wood B1,F9 Prayers B7,F12; B8,F7 Preston, Edwin Smith, 1901-1978 B1,F10 Prothro, James Thompson “Doc,” 1893-1971 B1,F9; B2,F10 Prothro, James Thompson “Doc,” 1893-1971 – Relating to B2,F10 Race relations – Comments about, 1951-1970 B6,F4 Reams, Henry Frazier, Sr., 1897-1971 B1,F9 Relativity (Physics) Rhine, Joseph Banks, 1895-1980 B2,F2 Rhine, Louisa E. B3,F6 Rice, Alice (Caldwell) Hegan, 1870-1942 – Photograph B4,F6 Rice, Alice (Caldwell) Hegan, 1870-1942 – Relating to B3,F10; B4,F1,7-12 Rice, Blanche Alexander (Buchanan), 1871-1937 – Letters to B4,F5 Rice, Blanche Alexander (Buchanan), 1871-1937 – Relating to B4,F1 Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 B4,F1 Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 – Photograph B4,F3 Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 – Relating to B1,F7; B2,F11; B3,F7,10; B4,F2,4,5,8,11,12 Rice family – Relating to B5,F9; B6,F1,2 Rice, Laban Lacy, 1870-1973 – Photographs B8,F11,12,14-17 Rice, Laban Marchbanks, 1838-1915 – Photographs B8,F18 Rice, Laban Marchbanks, 1838-1915 – Relating to B1,F8; B6,F1 Rice, Lacy I. B1,F11 Rice, Martha Ann (Lacy), 1848-1882 – Photograph B8,F18 Rickover, Hyman George, 1900-1986 B2,F6 Robertson, Absalom Willis, 1887-1971 B2,F6
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Robertson, John Fite, 1894-1976 B3,F5 Rockefeller, Abigail Greene “Abby” (Aldrich), 1874-1948 – Comments about, 1948 B1,F11 Rockefeller, David, 1915-2007 – Correspondence B2,F11 Rockefeller, John Davison, Jr., 1874-1960 B1,F11 Rockefeller, John Davison, Jr., 1874-1960 – Relating to B2,F4,5 Schad, Walter C. B2,F4 Schairer, Otto S., 1879-1976 B2,F1,2 Schwarzschild, Martin, 1912-1997 B1,F11 Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972 B1,F9; B2,F2 Sharp, Dallas Lore, 1870-1929 B1,F8 Shaw, Katherine (Rice), d. 1954 – Relating to B1,F3 Shaw, Lacy Rice, 1920-1981 – Letter to B1,F15 Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926 B1,F8 Shipp, Ola Nancy (Echols), 1878-1963 B1,F10 Silvers, Robert Benjamin, 1929-2017 B2,F4 Smyth, Newman, 1843-1925 B1,F8 Sperry, Willard, Learoyd, 1882-1954 B1,F8 Spitz, Armand Neustadter, 1904-1971 B1,F15 Spitzer, Lyman Strong, Jr., 1914-1997 B1,F14 Stahlman, James Geddes, 1893-1976 B1,F15; B2,F2,6,8; B3,F1,3,4 Stern, Phillip D., 1913-1991 B2,F1 Stickney, Edith (Cooley), 1869-1951 – Relating to B1,F13 Stockton, Ernest Looney, Sr., b. 1888 – Comments about, 1943 B1,F9 Stockton, Ernest Looney, Jr., 1917-1984 – Correspondence B2,F4-6,8-11; B3,F1-8; B4,F11 Stockton, Ernest Looney, Jr., 1917-1984 – Photographs B8,F11,16,17 Streete, L. A. B3,F7 Strouse, Mose A., 1875-1966 B2,F6 Struve, Otto, 1897-1963 B1,F11; B2,F2 Taft, Robert Alphonso, 1889-1953 B1,F12 Taylor, Horace, 1894-1970 B1,F13; B3,F8 Thomas, Norman Mattoon, 1884-1968 B1,F15 Thompson, Edwin Kelly, 1909-1993 – Correspondence B3,F11 Tombaugh, Clyde William, 1906-1997 B2,F8 Van Biesbroeck, George A., 1880-1974 – Photographs B8,F11 Viereck, Peter Robert Edwin, 1916-2006 – Comments about, 1951 B1,F13 Vietnam War, 1961-1975 – Comments about, 1965-1969 B2,F9,11; B3,F1,8 Von Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich, 1912-2007 B1,F12 Wakefield, Christopher (fictitious person) B2,F6 Walters, Herbert Sanford, 1891-1973 B2,F8 Watson, John, 1847-1939 B1,F8 Whipple, Fred Lawrence, 1906-2004 – Correspondence B1,F11 Whipple, Fred Lawrence, 1906-2004 – Relating to B1,F11 Wicke, Reginald Julius, 1901-1976 B1,F11,13; B2,F7 Williams, Theodore Samuel “Ted,” 1918-2002 B2,F3 Wilson, Albert George, 1918-2012 B1,F15
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Women – Attitudes toward B7,F11; B8,F8 Woodberry, George Edward, 1855-1930 B1,F8 York, Alvin Cullum, 1887-1964 B1,F8
SEE or SEE ALSO
Castle Heights School – Lebanon, Tennessee See also: Castle Heights Military Academy
Choi, John A., 1912-2008 See also: Jae-seon, John A. Choi
Cumberland College – Lebanon, Tennessee See also: Cumberland University
Niedermeier/Jeffrey 04/17/2017
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